| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have
lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful
of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. "We will peck them
to death tomorrow, my dear."
I did not know it, but that was the last civilised dinner
I was to eat for very many strange and terrible days.
CHAPTER EIGHT
FRIDAY NIGHT
The most extraordinary thing to my mind, of all the
strange and wonderful things that happened upon that
Friday, was the dovetailing of the commonplace habits of
War of the Worlds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: break into my house and steal my goods and do myself some injury. I
cringed before informers.[49] I was obliged to pay these people court,
because I knew that I could injure them far less than they could
injure me. Never-ending the claims upon my pocket which the state
enforced upon me; and as to setting foot abroad, that was beyond the
range of possibility. But now that I have lost my property across the
frontier,[50] and derive no income from my lands in Attica itself; now
that my very household goods have been sold up, I stretch my legs at
ease, I get a good night's rest. The distrust of my fellow-citizens
has vanished; instead of trembling at threats, it is now my turn to
threaten; at last I feel myself a freeman, with liberty to go abroad
The Symposium |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: were recorded in the military police logs. By 0200 the area sweep was
completed, and the military police went to their shelters and
stations. A final check of personnel was made in each shelter (3; 9;
12).
At the time of detonation, 99 project personnel were in the three
shelters: 29 in the north shelter, 37 in the west shelter, and 33 in
the south shelter. Dr. Oppenheimer, Dr. Bainbridge, and other key
personnel awaited the firing at the south shelter, which served as the
Control Point. Figure 2-3 shows the exterior of the south shelter;
figure 2-4 gives an interior view of one of the shelters, most likely
the south. Although most of the shelter occupants were civilians, at
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